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Notes for Dual Booting Fedora 26 on the Lenovo X1 Carbon (5th Gen, X1C5)
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Dual booting Fedora 26 on the Lenovo X1 Carbon (X1C5)

Starting with a freshly-delivered Lenovo X1C5 system:

  1. Open the box. Charge the battery
  2. Open the lid and complete the basic "getting started / system setup" steps for Windows
  3. Install Chrome or Firefox, remove IE from the taskbar, and set a new default browser
  4. Create a Fedora installation disk (USB), available at getfedora.org
  5. Resize / Shrink your C: drive to create room for Fedora
    1. If you have trouble shrinking your Windows volume, try temporarily disabling hibernation, pagefile, and System Protection
  6. Disable Secure Boot (BIOS setting)
  7. Load the Fedora LiveCD (from USB) by changing the BIOS boot order (Enter, F12)
  8. Instruct the Fedora (anaconda) installer to preserve all existing partitions (Windows volumes), and create a new encrypted LVM partition for Fedora to use
  9. Complete the basic install, reboot your system, and then run a system update (dnf update)
  10. Add support for mirrored output (1080p, 720p modelines)
  11. MATE users only: Add /usr/bin/fusion-icon to your startup items
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